Category: News

ULaw reveals SQE prep course fees
Prices range from £500 for a short SQE1 revision course to £16,500 for most comprehensive LLM

Solicitor who assaulted female family member rebuked
Received conditional caution

City Consortium to provide SQE ‘top-up courses’ for future trainees
Exclusive: Will cover legal tech and project management skills

Osborne Clarke ends COVID salary cuts early
Will repay staff deducted earnings this month

Junior lawyer warns law firms against ‘misusing’ apprenticeship levy
JLD committee member James Kitching's comments come at the start of National Apprenticeship Week

Macfarlanes restores NQ lawyer salaries to £85,000 following COVID cut
Pay trimmed by £5k last summer

Councillor in chaotic parish meeting is a lawyer
Aled Brewerton -- one of the participants in the now viral video call -- has a legal background, report claims

Hogan Lovells gets its first female solo chair
Marie-Aimée de Dampierre is one of a number of women in leadership roles at the firm

Revealed: The chambers with the most supportive barristers 2021
From multiple virtual meet-ups to the set's most formidable silk lending a hand

Shortlists revealed for the Legal Cheek Awards 2021
Who will you be rooting for?

High Court video hearing thrown into chaos after intruders share pics of ‘well-endowed men’
Members of the public, who dialled into a case concerning Swindon Town F.C., blew raspberries, screamed and shared pornographic images

Herbert Smith Freehills keeps 28 out of 30 NQ associates
Solid spring score of 93%

BCLP restores NQ solicitor pay to £80k as it retains 14 out of 16 spring qualifiers
City player cut salaries in response to pandemic

What does a lawyer look like?
White, male and upper class, according to new research on public perceptions

Revealed: The best chambers for training and quality of work 2021
The results of Legal Cheek’s latest Junior Barrister Survey are in

Top judge rocks incredible judicial face mask
Robe-inspired number features Lord Justice Nugee's initials

Pandemic-driven private equity boom helps Kirkland’s revenues soar to record $5 billion
Moneyed partners wary not to trumpet financial success in light of global crisis, according to insiders

Barrister expelled from chambers over ‘stroppy teenager of colour’ tweet
Jon Holbrook, formerly of Cornerstone Barristers, says he resigned four days earlier